Soldiers volunteering for MFH duty are recognized for outstanding support to the Army Reserve. c. Tasks to Subordinate Units and Staff. (1) MSC and DRC G1s. (a) Appoint an Officer, Noncommissioned Officer, or DA civilian to serve as the command's MFH representative to coordinate military funeral honors actions within the command. (b) Maintain a group of Soldiers eligible to perform MFH duty.…
The nature of trench warfare and life in the trenches dealing with experiences of Allied and German soldiers…
The nature of trench warfare and life in the trenches dealing with experiences of both allied and German soldiers.…
We already fought a couple of battles here at the Western Front. In most of those battles, both sides used trench warfare, in which soldiers hide inside deep trenches. These trenches were dug in rows with sandbags lined at the top – side facing the “no-man’s land”. No-man’s land was basically where all the battle happens. The countryside mire was filled with landmines, covered with barbed wires on the surface. Several of my surviving comrades from the previous battle, the Somme, were shell-shocked, probably from the disaster. I still couldn’t forget the ‘Blood Bath’ that happened there. Trench life has been far worse than the life at camp 2 years ago. There was still the awfully wet mud surrounding and the cold air filled our lungs. Our boots were always wet, and we were given whale oil to cover our feet every day. Some people refuse or forget to do it, thus they developed trench foot. It’s a condition where one’s feet are rotting, and more often than not, accompanied by swelling and a painful infection. The trenches were filled with lice and rats which caused diseases, when they sneaked around the supplies. I managed to avoid the lice because I kept the silk you gave, around my torso as an undershirt. Anyways, a few days before the battle, General Arthur Currie made thorough plans for the attack. The planes scouted the enemy front lines and the terrain, and spotted the snipers and machine gun positions. We built a…
Trench foot is a fungal infection caused by the feet being over exposed to damp conditions. Trench foot gets the name from World War I trench warfare, in which the soldiers were constantly in wet and damp conditions. The fungus was caused from sweating, cold, and wet feet not being treated properly and not being taken care of, like changing socks and keeping the feet dry. The symptoms would include the feet slowly going numb and the skin changing to dark or red colors while also rotting off toes and leaving holes in the feet. Amputation was the only treatment for trench foot, it was the only way to rid the body of the fungus. During 1914-1915, over 20,000 men were diagnosed with trench foot. The only way for the men to fight the fungus was to change socks multiple times a day. The soldiers would eventually carry around three pairs of socks with them, and they also were drying their feet every chance they got; the soldiers would also cover their feet in grease to help with the…
Fra Eline, our comrades on the front lines have other problems than the enemy. It comes in the forms of dysentery, rats, and trench foot. Dysentery makes an average man unable to preform the most basic of tasks. This dysentery is caused by unclean drinking water and rotten meat. The rats are a common infestation in the trenches because they spread lice and are a nuisance to the men.…
Yet the effectiveness of the machine gun made up in a sense for the limited training. It dehumanized and the fact that 1300 rounds could be fired off within a minute it was more or less the act of pulling the trigger and not letting go towards the direction of the enemy. Since the French and the Germans were at a stalemate, they knew that the only way to protect themselves from the enemy was to dig, leading to trench warfare (Keegan, 258). The trench warfare became a game of sending men across no-man’s land in order to gain some leverage over the enemy. Conditions in the trenches was revolting with bodies of dead men and feces creating the perfect condition for disease, as well as trench foot caused by prolonged exposure of the feet to damp, unsanitary, and cold…
Hello Mother and Father how are you doing? I haven’t been doing too well in the trenches. As you know I have been assisting the French in the trenches for nearly two years. The trenches are horrendous; I never thought I would be more petrified at the horrific conditions than the actual war. Every day we face rats, hundreds of millions of rats, scurrying through the trenches. Since we don’t have a proper waste disposal system, the rats eat the trash that lay on the floor and the soldiers who have died in combat. It’s a gruesome sight, watching a fallen solder’s surrounded by flies and the rats consume the decaying corpses. Trench foot is almost just as bad, a couple of my closest friends have died from it. They told us that we developed trench foot from standing…
We don’t have any other pairs of clothes, so we sleep in the same pair of clothes every night. Since we have lice everywhere, we all have to cut our hair short so that it fits in our hats and we even have to scrape the lice off of our hair with the blunt edge of our knives. Our underclothes are always stuck to us from the sweat and the water inside of the trenches. Because our trenches are filled with water, there are a lot of us that have gotten trench foot. Trench foot is when your feet swell up to about two or three times the size of normal feet and they develop gangrene. I could stab my bayonet into my foot and not feel it. Sometimes, if you are lucky enough, the swelling goes down, but you feel the worst pain you have felt in your life. Men are screaming and crying in pain as their legs and feet get amputated. I got lucky, but if I was stuck in that trench for one more day, I fear I would have been too…
I was too inexperienced for the First War. I’m in the trenches between the borders of France and Germany. There were many soldiers lying dead on there. It was so wet, moist, and muddy that I saw many of them with necrosis and gangrene on their feet, due to keeping their foot on the trench’s filthy water. They said that this condition was so painful and agonizing that they were forced to amputate them to end the pain. Luckily, I wasn’t many of the soldiers with this infection. I hope you guys are okay, I might come back home alive til the war ends. Love you mom and…
At the start of the civil war most physicians were male and there were no specialties. Many chose to treat only eye or leg patients, receiving no more education that of a chosen surgeon. Not only did the physicians receive no specialty training there were few knowledgeable personnel to instruct medical recruits to the military code of behavior. Difficulties soon arose due to a fundamental failure to grasp the different between civilian practice and the military way of life.…
The vitality of emergency treatment and departure preparing can't be accentuated enough because this let troopers realize that they are esteemed regardless of the possibility that it is not unequivocally expressed. Showing others how it’s done is both the most effortless and hardest thing to do. It involves such things as guaranteeing your men eat before you do, additionally not requesting that them do anything you would not do. The entire idea of authority is, no doubt at the front, World War I was likely the last war where that had exacting significance, and pioneers were really the first over the top and demonstrated this by leading the…
Military leadership isn’t simply about leading a group of individuals to accomplish the mission. On the surface it may seem this way; a barrage of loud, authoritative orders being barked out to brainwashed enlistees. This is how the preponderance of the masses that aren’t associated with the military may see us. However, it’s much, much more than that. Military leadership is about leading individuals to become something more than they ever thought they could be. To develop an individual into one of integrity and excellence. To help them reach goals they never thought possible and to consider a world beyond their own. Truly, there is no other form of leadership quite like it.…
On military units the doctors play a pivotal role in so many aspects of military out put, they play a part in Out of Area Preps, referrals to Physio, referrals to specialists and diagnosis. The doctors play a big part in keeping us operationally fit which contributes massively to the bigger picture.…
nesscessary to meet the soldiers medical needs. The commander are supposed to consider the prognosis, diagnosis, and also the probable final disposition of the…